...On this morning 40 years ago, hippies from all over California and beyond were massing in caravans that lined for miles on Pacific Coast Highway in both directions. They were gathering for a rock concert that originally had been billed as a birthday party for Jesus but which quickly became known as either the Christmas Happening or The Great Happening. The concert, which was held in a grassy bowl at the top of Laguna Canyon known as Sycamore Flats, began on Christmas Day and ended three days later when hundreds of police officers and sheriffs deputies, who had already blocked off the town with barricades, forced stragglers onto buses and used bulldozers to bury everything left behind... *********** Get out your metal detectors and lets go prospecting !
Posted on: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 19:54:49 +0000
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